Janice
/ˈd͡ʒænɪs/
"janice" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Janice” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,353. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,353
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-janice · Janice · English
Janice · rank #18,353 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,353
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH jab
Nearest frequency peer: jab (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Janice”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- jab
jab
81,649 corpus weight
- Janice
Janice
81,648 corpus weight
- landfill
landfill
81,647 corpus weight
- Larson
Larson
81,646 corpus weight
- learner
learner
81,645 corpus weight
- lighten
lighten
81,644 corpus weight
What this shows “Janice” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Janice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Janice”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Janice (IPA /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,353 among 796 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Janice, with forms such as "ajnice", "jaince", and "jancie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "juice", "Janis", "Janie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Jane under apparent influence from Alice, Bernice, Eunice, etc., from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebr… The correct English form is Janice, spelled J-A-N-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Janice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend.
"Now class," she said, "my name is Mrs. Chubbie. I know how most of you would like to pronounce it, but the correct pronunciation is Mrs. Shew-bay." "It's Jan-eece," the goth-girl says. "Pardon me?" Mrs Shew-bay asks very properly. "My name is pronounced Jan-eece. Not Janice." The whole class tries to stop from laughing out loud at this. "I've changed sin…
Etymology
Variant of Jane under apparent influence from Alice, Bernice, Eunice, etc., from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role. Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ajnice
- jaince
- jancie
- janicce
- janiec
- jannice
- jjanice
- jnaice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Janice - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Janice", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).